| Inland wetlands are common on floodplains along rivers and streams and in other low-lying areas. |
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| Its diversified landscape has a rugged relief and is made up of rivers, ponds, meadows and floodplains, gallery forests and savannah. |
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| But as the rains progress, they abandon the tall, rank grass in the floodplains and woodlands in search of more palatable foodstuff. |
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| Pale swallow-worts invade a wide variety of habitats including old fields, open woodlands, pastures, roadsides, and floodplains. |
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| These floodplains offer important ecological, hydrological and recreational functions and values. |
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| In time, as the Ecca Sea filled with sediment and the deltas prograded basinward, large tracts of river channels and floodplains emerged. |
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| Swamp forests of bald cypress and tupelo grow in low-lying areas such as floodplains or abandoned river channels. |
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| Study sites were located in floodplains of the upper Passaic River basin in the Piedmont physiographic region of New Jersey. |
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| The period from 1150 BC to AD 150 witnessed active erosion and sedimentation on floodplains and in channels. |
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| In Bangladesh, settlement of populations in high risk areas such as floodplains and river deltas increases vulnerability. |
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| Based on the habitat preference of associated species R. eastmanii prefers the ecotonal habitat between the wet floodplains and the dry uplands. |
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| Transient flooding with fresh water is a world-wide phenomenon in river floodplains and wetlands as well as other terrestrial ecosystems. |
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| Magnetic termites are adapted to living on floodplains with waterlogged soil. |
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| At the same time, urban parks were seen as ecological reserves, acting as floodplains, wildlife corridors, or natural habitats. |
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| Riley's lappet moth is found in southern Michigan along floodplains where its larval host plant, honey locust, grows. |
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| The campaigners estimate that up to a tenth of all Europeans and a quarter of all Hungarians live or work in floodplains. |
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| You can't save beaches and wetlands with seawalls, and you can't wall off river deltas and floodplains that contain much of the world's most productive agricultural land. |
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| This may not be an unexpected outcome given that the sediment on the floodplains may not have contained sufficient seeds or vegetative propagules of this species. |
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| Younger deposits correspond to silty sand, silt, sand and clay on present floodplains and alluvial fans in area of low relief. |
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| Go punting amid endless fields, marshes and floodplains, listen to birds chattering and frogs croaking, and you'll feel relaxed and rejuvenated. |
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| The floodplains contained cottonwood, willow, box elder, and soft maple. |
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| Alluvial deposits are either dredged from pond and river bottoms or sluiced from banks and floodplains with high-pressure hydraulic hoses. |
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| We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation. |
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| Furthermore, mountain areas in particular the Alps, coastal and urban areas and densely populated floodplains are facing particular problems. |
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| Yet, the northern pike, a coolwater species, prefers spawning areas with slow moving water, such as wetlands or submerged, vegetated floodplains. |
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| In addition to a supply of water, floodplains have a nutrient rich top soil, which is good for agriculture. |
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| Cities were encouraged to adopt suitable land use policies and appropriate zoning to restrict development in designated floodplains. |
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| It is vital to preserve the floodplains, and indeed to recover and make full use of them by reducing the time they are under water. |
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| Government agencies, like conservation authorities, will go to the wall for valleys, areas of natural and scientific significance, forests and floodplains. |
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| On the small dambos and edges of floodplains reedbuck and puku graze on the short grass while shaggy-haired waterbuck pop up here and there in the most unlikely places. |
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| This could allow for adhesion to hooves and fur as well as boots and motorized vehicle tires and suggests a potential for plants to be dispersed outside of floodplains. |
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| All three components are tightly linked in a cooperative research program to reforest Missouri floodplains once dominated by oaks and other native trees. |
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| Policies that presently encourage development in low-lying floodplains and coastal areas should be immediately reexamined. |
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| Moose depend on high-quality feeding areas in the shrub zone along river floodplains and on the early successional growth of woody plants in burned or cutover forest. |
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| The day drained out of her and endorphins filled her floodplains. |
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| A number of provinces and territories have since introduced independent programs intended to rationalize land use in floodplains, and the development of models to forecast these extreme events is ongoing. |
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| Examples of continental environments are lagoons, lakes, swamps, floodplains and alluvial fans. |
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| The project supported by the Foundation in 2006 focuses on 112 hectares of floodplains at the convergence of the Rivière au Saumon and Saint-François River. |
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| One of the main objectives of the program was to produce maps identifying flood-risk areas within selected floodplains and designating them as such. |
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| This project's objective is to determine the respective weight of the changes in the land use and in the rainfall contributions, as well as in the rising waters and flooding in Luxembourg's main floodplains. |
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| Do they have the will to prevent development projects in floodplains? |
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| They often form large colonies on wooded floodplains via prolific spread by stolons. |
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| These ecosystems, including peatlands, marshes, floodplains, mangrove forests and lakes, function as natural water filters and buffers against flooding, droughts and storms. |
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| Wiry green alder and willow thickets line streamsides, and the gravelly floodplains of rivers are bright with the flowers of harebell, river beauty and yellow mountain-saxifrage. |
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| Most of the villages, compactly built and often walled, follow the alignment of the river systems in the low-lying but fertile alluvial floodplains or the major route corridors. |
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| Native to tropical South and Central America, acai palms are common along the Amazon River estuary and are cultivated on floodplains, especially in the state of Pará in Brazil. |
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| Whether at farmers' markets or roadside stands, it is impossible to miss the abundance of fiddlehead ferns for sale each spring, freshly picked as unfurled sprouts along floodplains and margins of many New Brunswick rivers. |
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| I'm in their small home on the floodplains of Lempa River, in the dank sugar-lands of rural El Salvador, where they live in a community with about 150 other families. |
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| With its rocky tidal estuary, craggy narrow shorelines, open lakes, floodplains, marshes and bogs, the river provides a unique habitat for many plant and animal species. |
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| For many years the Agency has been offering strong advice against the development of land in floodplains because of the risk of flooding. |
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| Geologically ancient floodplains are often represented in the landscape by fluvial terraces. |
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| These are old floodplains that remain relatively high above the present floodplain and indicate former courses of a stream. |
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| Tugay forests form an ecosystem associated with floodplains, especially in Central Asia. |
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| The growth of the city from the 1970s on has brought development down from the hill onto the floodplains. |
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| The present-day rivers have narrow courses incised into the floodplains, with anabranches, or anastomosing distributary channels. |
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| In many cases human activities in rivers and floodplains have dramatically increased the risk of flooding. |
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| Avoid crossing on meander bends, braided streams, alluvial fans, active floodplains or any other area that is inherently unstable and may result in the erosion and scouring of the stream bed. |
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| Some large rivers with only a slight gradient have low rates of discharge and flow and extensive floodplains with many interconnected bodies of lentic waters. |
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| The majority of the erosion of river channels and the erosion and deposition on the associated floodplains occur during the flood stage. |
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| Since lateral erosion of originally braiding or meandering rivers is limited by channel stabilisation, these processes can no longer balance out the natural aggradations of the alluvial floodplains. |
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| Flood waters from the Zambezi and Kwando rivers have formed the Caprivi floodplains, which consist of a network of channels, oxbow lakes and large areas of surrounding grassland. |
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| The most productive soils in Washington are those of the river floodplains along with the weathered basalts and windblown silts of the Columbia basin. |
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| Geomorphic structures within and along channels of streams include, but are not limited to, active channels, floodplains, and bars, shelves, and oxbow lakes of channels. |
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| When the dry season starts they move back south, either to grazing lands around the lakes and floodplains, or to the savannas further to the south. |
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| Scientists now understand the levees have increased the severity of flooding by increasing the flow speed of the river and reducing the area of the floodplains. |
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| Shales are typically deposited in very slow moving water and are often found in lakes and lagoonal deposits, in river deltas, on floodplains and offshore from beach sands. |
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| They erode their banks and deposit material on bars and their floodplains. |
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| This makes floodplains particularly valuable for agriculture. |
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